Has anybody been able to achieve this? I have my PiHole up and running, but I have a feeling something about the BB Unit/Softbank’s weird IPv6 is preventing it from working.
I have a TP-Link router, you can see a bunch of my settings here: https://imgur.com/a/AIVDXcK
Here are a bunch of Japanese people talking about DHCP settings on the BB Unit:
https://itest.5ch.net/test/read.cgi/isp/1605748171/309-n
It seems they are saying it can’t be disabled/modified? I haven’t touched any of the settings on the BB Unit itself, yet. Could it be something to do with DMZ settings?
My BB Unit is a 2.4 BTW. I’m a newbie with all of this so any help would be appreciated.
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It would probably help if you’d share your network topology. The title mentioned ipv6 but your screenshots show ipv4.
You’re pihole also appears to be in a different range from the rest of your network. You got a DNS service on the pihole as well because its doing its lookups to localhost instead of google or somebody else?
You’re over-complicating this by trying to run your own DNS server locally. I know many people who set up Pi-holes want to do this but to me it has never seemed worthwhile.
People talk about improved privacy by doing this, but since requests to most DNS servers are plaintext, the idea that it provides additional privacy is questionable at best, IMO. I use Quad9 filtered with DNSSEC. At least then all my outbound requests are encrypted, and I don’t have to monkey around with a local DNS server on my Pi-hole.
So, I’d get rid of the local DNS server, at least for now. Get it working with Quad9 as your upstream provider, and make sure all your network devices are using the Pi-hole as you expect. Once you have that working, if you really want to build a Pi-hole with its own DNS server then buy another Raspberry Pi and invest the time to get it working on a separate network. Once you have it working as you expect, migrate it to your actual network.
Some people are not going to agree with me for this, but just disable ipv6 on your router and everything will work.
For the record, I’m also running a pihole in a raspberry Pi unit with Nuro internet service. I once did able to get the pihole running on ipv6 but it was a non-stop hassle and troubleshooting, trying to disable/enable a lot of options (ipv6 advertising, broadcast, SLAAC + RA, etc).
I did found a working combination in the end, but it’s not worth it. I just turned off ipv6 on my router, and couldn’t be happier. The speedtest result does not show speed decrease at all. IPv6 is way too complex for average home users, with no added benefit IMO. Most websites and home devices are still working fine on IPv4.